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Live music at drivetime

Katie Derham introduces live music from cellist Gabriella Swallow, guitarist Alexandra Whittingham, pianist Rebeca Omordia and balafon player Moussa Dembele.

Cellist Gabriela Swallow and guitarist Alexandra Whittingham perform live and are joined by the Artistic Director of the Lake District Music Festival, Stephen Threlfall.

There's also live music from pianist Rebeca Omordia and balafon player Moussa Dembele, ahead of the African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall.

2 hours

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia, 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
  • Ludwig Göransson

    American Prometheus (Oppenheimer)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Director: Ludwig Göransson.
    • Oppenheimer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Back Lot Music.
    • 9.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Verleih uns Frieden, WoO 5

    Performer: György Bognar. Performer: Reinhard Werner. Lyricist: Martin Luther. Choir: Kammerchor Stuttgart. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Conductor: Frieder Bernius.
    • Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden. Kirchenwerke VI.
    • Carus.
    • 13.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major Op.20 no.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Quatuor Mosaïques.
    • Naive.
  • Ernest Shand

    Legende

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major, Op 31 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Arp. Performer: Julian Arp. Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker. Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Rachel Roberts. Performer: Rachel Roberts. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Sebastian Manz. Performer: Sebastian Manz. Performer: Andrea Lieberknecht. Performer: Andrea Lieberknecht. Performer: François Leleux. Performer: François Leleux.
    • Winds & Strings: Spohr, Ibert, Janacek & Widmann (Live).
    • Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin.
    • 2.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkäinen Suite)

    Performer: Håvard Norang. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Sibelius : Symphonies 2,3,5 etc.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.
  • Christian Onyeji

    Ufie (Igbo Dance)

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bizet/Faure/Ibert/Ravel: City of London Sinfonia/Hickox.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 9.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in E Major, Kk. 380

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • Joanna MacGregor: Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonatas.
    • SoundCircus.
    • 13.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 2 Waltz)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Ballets russes.
    • Parlophone (France).
    • 11.
  • Traditional Malian

    Mali Sadio

    Performer: Moussa Dembélé.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 5 in F sharp minor (arr for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Dausgaard. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Brahms: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Caroline Shaw

    The Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci OST)

    Performer: John Patitucci. Ensemble: Attacca Quartet. Ensemble: Sō Percussion. Choir: Roomful of Teeth.
    • Leonardo da Vinci: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon (Original S.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 28.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude No 22 in B flat minor, The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, BWV 891

    Performer: Manami Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach, Haydn, Schubert & Szymanowski: Piano Works.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 101.
  • Gabriella Swallow & Alexandra Whittingham

    Master Kilby

  • Ernest Shand

    In Stately Measure

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nana (7 Canciones Populares Españolas)

    Performer: Gabriella Swallow. Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

    Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 etc..
    • Warner Classics.
    • 109.
  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B flat major, K 240 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläser der Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Mozart: Divertimenti for 6 Wind Instruments: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Orfeo.
    • 7.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

    Music Arranger: Vadim Borisovsky. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Frank Dupree.
    • A Poet's Love.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.

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